The solution........

Originally Posted by DopeBoy

I dont why everyone is making this so complicated. All you have to do is buy any nVidea Video card with dual monitors support, such as the cheap but good fx5200, install it, and then download the program nView and you can easily swith between monitors, use both simultaniously, use 2 as one big screen, horizontally or verticlly. Its the easiest thing in the world.

If you read the first post, he wants the active window to be maximized on the second screen. He does not want an extended desktop, neither horizontal nor vertical. He basically wants to use the second screen exclusively for the active application, while leaving the remaining programs, and ALL of the desktop on the primary screen. Think of it like a magnifying tool. P.S. a visit to pricewatch will do absolutely nothing....

Originally Posted by MSUC5Vette

I have an ATI card on my laptop which does support dual monitors. I can extend my desktop to a second monitor

What do you mean what I suggest won't work at all? I didn't realize I suggested anything.

I understand how to activate multiple monitors, I have done it on my desktop as well.

I have an ATI card on my laptop which does support dual monitors. I can extend my desktop to a second monitor.

I guess I am not being clear on what I want to do.

For example:
I have Winamp running in my primary display.
I want to move it to the secondary display so I can still see it while I operate my GPS program on the primary screen.
Instead of dragging Winamp to the second screen which is going to be a PITA with a touch screen, I would like to hit an icon, hot key, etc to have Winamp be automatically drug to the other monitor.
Then if I want to change songs or something I again would like to be able to hit a hot key so I can operate winamp in the primary display and then move it back to the secondary.

Any ideas? Does this make sense?

Ops sorry I didn't mean to say what you proposed wouldn't work I meant to say what Dr J was suggesting wouldn't work. In my orginal post I quoted what he said, sorry.

Although several people don't seem to understand exactly what you are trying to achieve, you might want to look into some of the more advanced features of nVidia's nView software, if I recall it may have a feature that will do what you want to do. Hell the latest nVidia ForceWare drivers have a built in pop up blocker, so who knows.

Ops sorry I didn't mean to say what you proposed wouldn't work I meant to say what Dr J was suggesting wouldn't work. In my orginal post I quoted what he said, sorry.

Although several people don't seem to understand exactly what you are trying to achieve, you might want to look into some of the more advanced features of nVidia's nView software, if I recall it may have a feature that will do what you want to do. Hell the latest nVidia ForceWare drivers have a built in pop up blocker, so who knows.

The UltraMon software is what you are looking for. I've used it for this exact situation. It puts some extra icons at the top of each window, and you can move the window from screen to screen. Or even have it span 1 window across both screens at the touch of a button.

The UltraMon software is what you are looking for. I've used it for this exact situation. It puts some extra icons at the top of each window, and you can move the window from screen to screen. Or even have it span 1 window across both screens at the touch of a button.

Awesome find, I downloaded it, played around with it for about 5 minutes, works great.

I can right click on the window in the task bar to have it move from one monitor to the other.

This should work well, I assume if I can set up a hotkey in Grider to do an Alt + Tab to move to the next window. Anyone have any idea what I could then do to have any idea how I could get grider to do the right click / move to other monitor?